Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-26

The revenue reformers in Congress mean
heart OF Pennsylvania. g
British agriculturists are gaining in their
ability to compete with the outside compe-
tition OF America and Australia.
Prices in some British manufacturing
%centers have taken an upward turn. Lin
are being exported in increasing quantities.
The Fall River print cloth manufacturers
have sold I, 200, 600 pieces for future deliv-
cry, and the productive capacity is from
100000 to 10, 600 pieces per year.
Stocks have not been as low for years.
Wages have increased ten per cent.
One of the largest engineering undertak-
ings now in progress is the construction of
the Illinois steel bridge at Cairo. The ap-
proaches will be a mile and half in length
and the bridge proper a mile, making the
entire bridge four miles long and ffty-two
feet above high-water mark. The structure
will be the fiEest on the Ohio.
The sugar producers OF the world are to
hold q worlds convention sometime soon
in Belgium to consider the best means OF
controlling that rapidly increasing indus
try.
A Lebanon concern has received a con-
tract for twelve blowing engines for Ala
bama furnaces. A Rhode Island concern
has just booked a large order for engines
and boilers for the New Orleans Custom
House. A Boston concern has just re-
ceived an order from Denmark for CORFU
gated brass-tube radiators. A Dubuque
concern will ship next week a carload of
harrows to st. Petersburg. Their plows
have already a good sale in that country.
A Wheeling nail factory turned out week
before last 5000 kegs of nails. The cleo
trio lighting companies are expanding their
capacity, and new works are being erected
in the South. A new structural steel plant
will likely he erected at Chicago. Krupp,
the German manufacturer, has taken an
order for $4,000 tons of steel rails fromthe
Government.
A Philadelphia firm has now under con-
seven large steel plants, both Besse-
mer and open hearth, and has inquiries
OiA " SooN many COIlpdulS6 WHO con-
template investing large sums of money in
iron and steel making enterprises during
the year. An Alliance, Ohio, firm is COM
shears OF $50 tons which will cut
steel plate ten feet long and one and one
half inches thick. |
A Philadelphia corporation has opened
a vein of iron ore in North Carolina 800
wide, which gives 40, 200, 600 ions of
ore in sight. 1t makes a superb steel. A
railroad is being built from South Carroll
ma through this ore region to the Ohio
river, by which this ore will be delivered to
furnaces that may want it.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
1as just built ~thirty-two sixty-ton engines,
With four driving wheels, which can draw
orty-five loaded freight cars with as much
Ease as the largest engine now on the sur.
ace can draw thirty-five cars. All the
bridges are being strengthened to stand the
weight OF these monsters.
The new glass factories are to he erected
n Florida.
The production OF coke in 1886 was 80
Yer cent greater thar in 1885. Some one
that hollow iron blocks be made
or street paving.
Reports are Just to hand concerning the
Increasing Unemployment in many OF the
Industries, both east and west.
The State Workinsmen's Assembly of
'ew York meet at Albany on Tuesday
ext. The workingmen will lay their
lans for presenting a programme to the
All special grievances are
allied for. The retail statesmen will ask
an amendment to the closing law be
ought. All workingmen will demand the {
epeal OF the conspiracy laws. The printers {
Ill urge that a State printing Office be {
The building trades will show i
the Mechanics Lien law should be I
mended. A general demand will be made
the enforcement of the eight-hour law. ,